LYRICS
| Meter: |
| Writer(s): | Kristian Ostergaard
| Transl/Adapt: | Jens C. Aarberg
| Dates: |
| Bible Refs: | Mt 13:31-32
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MUSIC
| Name: | OSTERGAARD
| | Meter: |
| Writer(s): | Danish folk melody
| Dates: |
|  | | 1. That cause can never
be lost nor stayed
Which takes the course
of what God has made;
And is not trusting
in walls and towers,
But slowly growing
from seeds to flowers.
2. Each noble service
that men have wrought
Was first conceived
as a fruitful thought;
Each worthy cause
with a future glorious
By quietly growing
becomes victorious.
3. Thereby itself like a tree it shows:
That high it reaches, as deep it grows;
And when the storms
are its branches shaking,
It deeper root in the soil is taking.
4. Be then no more
by a storm dismayed,
For by it the full grown seeds are laid;
And though the tree
by its might it shatters,
What then, if thousands
of seeds it scatters?
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